An amendment numbered 9 printed in House Report 110-603 to require agencies that administer SBIR programs to give special consideration to pressing transportation and infrastructure research activities, as identified by reports issued by the Department of Transportation and National Academy of Sciences.

In section 107(3) of the bill, in the quoted matter, strike “or” at the end of subparagraph (D), and insert after subparagraph (D) the following:

(E) the National Academy of Sciences, in the final report issued by the ‘Transit Research and Development: Federal Role in the National Program' project and the ‘Transportation Research, Development and Technology Strategic Plan (2006-2010)' issued by the United States Department of Transportation Research and Innovative Technology Administration, and in subsequent reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences and United States Department of Transportation on transportation and infrastructure; or

In section 504(a) of the bill, in the quoted matter, redesignate (E) as (F).